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I N T E R N AT I O N A L A S S O C I AT I O N O F M U S E U M F A C I L I T Y A D M I N I S T R AT O R S

PAPYRUS
VOL. 14, NO. 3

Preview of the 2014 Scotland Conference

Best Practices: Sustainable Roofs

British Library New Lighting Control System

Recap of the 2013 Washington, D.C. Conference,
Including IAMFA’s New 5-Year Strategic Plan

WINTER 2013–2014

CONTENTS

Message from the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The 23rd IAMFA Annual Conference in
Washington, D.C.: A Week of Learning,
Culture, Networking and Tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Benchmarking Workshop:
Sharing Practical Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Regional Updates and Member News . . . . . . . . . . . .

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A New Lighting Control System for the
British Library Auditorium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Steensen Varming’s 80th Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . .

Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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IAMFA Members—Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Best Practices Feature Article: Sustainability
and Proper Roof Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Preview of the 24th IAMFA Annual Conference
in Scotland, U.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Fred W. Smith National Library for the
Study of George Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Energy Waste Due to Low Delta T in Chilled
Water Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Cover photo: Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C. Photo by Daniel Davies

IAMFA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

REGIONAL CHAPTERS

President and
2013 Conference Chair
Nancy Bechtol
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC, USA
bechtna@si.edu

Atlanta, U.S.A. — Kevin Streiter
High Museum of Art
kevin.streiter@woodruffcenter.org

V.P., Administration
Randy Murphy
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA, USA
RMurphy@lacma.org
V.P., Regional Affairs
Brian Coleman
Museum Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
bcoleman@museum.vic.gov.au
Treasurer
Alan Dirican
Dumbarton Oaks
Washington, DC, USA
DiricanA@doaks.org

IAMFA/ Papyrus
Volume 14, Number 3
Winter 2013–2014
Editor
Joe May
Contributors
Nancy Bechtol
Michael Cummings
Maurice Evans
Jennifer Fragomeni
Todd Garing

Secretary
David Sanders
Natural History Museum (Retired)
London, UK
d.sanders@bham.ac.uk
Editor
Joseph E. May
Sustainability Engineer
Los Angeles, CA, USA
joemay001@hotmail.com
2014 Conference Chair
Jack Plumb
National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh, UK
j.plumb@nls.uk

For additional
contact information,
please visit our website at
www.IAMFA.org

Craig S. Isaacson
Joe May
Jack Plumb
Ed Richard
Mike Wildsmith
Stacey Wittig

Australia — Shaun Woodhouse
Australian Centre for the
Moving Image
Shaun.Woodhouse@acmi.net.au
Chicago, USA — William Caddick
Art Institute of Chicago
wcaddick@artic.edu
Los Angeles, USA — David Cervantes
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
dcervant@lacma.org
New England, USA —
Jim Moisson
Harvard Art Museums
james_moisson@harvard.edu
New York, USA — Mark Demairo
Neue Galerie
markdemairo@neuegalerie.org
New Zealand — Cliff Heywood
Royal New Zealand Navy
clifford.heywood@nzdf.mil.nz

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Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada —
Ed Richard
National Gallery of Canada
ERichard@Gallery.ca
Philadelphia, USA — Rich Reinert
Philadelphia Museum of Art
RReinert@philamuseum.org
Northern California, USA —
Jennifer Fragomeni
Exploratorium
jfrago@exploratorium.edu
United Kingdom — Jack Plumb
j.plumb@nls.uk
Washington/Baltimore, USA —
Maurice Evans
Smithsonian Institution
evansma@si.edu
For more information on
becomming a member of the
International Association of
Museum Facility Administrators,
please visit www.IAMFA.org

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Joe May
Editor, Papyrus

Greetings from Los Angeles!

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n this first issue of Papyrus since the
2013 IAMFA Conference, we have
included articles recapping the
23rd Annual Conference in Washington,
D.C., and a recap by Stacey Wittig of
the Benchmarking and Learning
Workshop, which was held on the day
prior to the start of the conference.
This year’s benchmarking exercise
had 51 participants from across the
globe, and in her article Stacey draws
comparisons between cost of operations
for cultural institutions, and those of
other types of facilities participating in
benchmarking exercises administered
by Facility Issues Inc.
This year’s IAMFA Conference had
record attendance, with more than
160 delegates and guests from Europe,
the Americas, and Australasia enjoying
17 venues in and around Washington,
D.C. This issue features a summary of
the venues, sponsors, and educational
components of the conference, along
with recognition of those who received
awards at our gala.
In this issue, we have a variety of
interesting articles authored by IAMFA
members. Patrick Dixon from the
British Library contributed an article
about the new LED lighting system in
their conference center auditorium
at St. Pancras, London. We have also
posted a video of the lighting system
in operation on the www.IAMFA.Org
Members Only Page, so please have a
look sometime—it is spectacular!
The 2013 Washington, D.C. Conference Organizing Committee did an
amazing job, planning one of the best

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PAPYRUS WINTER 2013–2014

conferences we’ve ever had. You’ll
find a collection of pictures from this
year’s conference in the centerfold of
this issue of Papyrus, and our website’s
Members Only Page has a link for downloading any of these images. There is
also a video of images from the conference on the website’s 2013 Conference
Page to document the conference for
future visitors. If you ever wish to refresh
your memories of past conferences,
there are similar videos going back
several years.
Our Principal Sponsor for this year’s
conference, Steensen Varming Ltd.,
celebrated its 80th anniversary a month
before the IAMFA Conference. We’ve

IAMFA enjoyed a
record year in 2013,
and 2014 will no
doubt be another.

included a short piece with a few
pictures from the celebration at the
Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
You will find an article in this issue
about energy loss in chilled-water systems, and how Belimo’s high-efficiency
valves correct this. There is also an
article about sustainability and proper
roof design by Craig Isaacson from
Derbigum, a new IAMFA corporate
member. Finally, Todd Garing of
Mueller Associates, an IAMFA corporate
member and sponsor, contributed
an article about the Fred W. Smith
National Library for the Study of
George Washington at Mount Vernon.
With this year’s IAMFA Conference
behind us, it’s now time to begin
communicating plans for next year’s
conference in Scotland. You will find
a preview in this issue. The 2014

Conference will have 14 venues in
Edinburgh and Glasgow, including
the National Library of Scotland;
the Burrell Collection; the Riverside
Museum, where we will have cocktails
aboard a sailing ship from 1896; and the
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum,
where we will enjoy a traditional Burns
Supper. Please see the link on the
website for more info about a Burns
Supper . . . you won’t want to miss it—
it sounds like an authentic piece of
Scottish history.
There will be a Guest Program as
usual next year, including a chance
to board a Concorde at the National
Museum of Flight, and a visit to Rosslyn
Chapel, made famous in the movie
The Da Vinci Code. We’ll visit the National
Museum of Scotland, as well as the
National Galleries of Scotland, and
the National Portrait Gallery, with the
closing Gala held at the Royal Botanic
Garden. There will be an optional
extra day with a visit to New Lanark,
originally created in the 18th century as
a cotton mill, and now a World Heritage
Site. Please visit the IAMFA website for
more details, and start making your
travel plans soon.
IAMFA’s membership has grown
significantly in 2013 to over 250, and
its LinkedIn Group now has over
650 members from 48 countries.
Thanks to all of our members who
have helped spread the word about
IAMFA, as well as those who have
helped foster conversations in our
LinkedIn Group. For Facebook users,
try searching for IAMFA, and “Like”
us, if you wish. We will be determining
if Facebook is another way for members
or guests to communicate, or to possibly
reach candidates who may become
IAMFA members in future.
IAMFA enjoyed a record year in
2013, and 2014 will no doubt be
another. Finally, my sincere thanks to
those who contributed content to this
issue of Papyrus. Your contributions
continue to make this a great resource
for facilities managers everywhere.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Nancy Bechtol
President, IAMFA

Greetings from
Washington, D.C.!

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y heartfelt thanks and appreciation go out to the entire
2013 Annual Conference Planning Committee, led by Tiffany Myers.
What a wonderful conference we had
in October, thanks to this team of 28!
Have you ever been on a team with
28 players? Well, if you have, you know
it isn’t easy to keep that many folks
organized and all working in the same
direction! Tiffany Myers made the job
look easy, and we were all treated to
a fabulous conference. Every host
location was perfectly prepared for
our arrival, and put on a great show.
Although we had six official host locations during the conference, many
more sites were visited. I do not think
they could have fit more activity or
stops into the agenda each day.
The conference started with one
of our most successful benchmarking
workshops ever. Close to 50 members
attended, and we spent the day learning about best practices in all of our
museums and cultural institutions.
Stacey Wittig and Keith McClanahan
from Facilities Issues led us through
this daylong workshop, and kept the
content and ideas flowing. We were so
busy that we didn’t even miss the coffeeless coffee break in the morning (well,
maybe some of us did!).
The main conference program
started on Monday with over 160 of
our 250 members attending. This is an
amazing number, and one of which we
should be most proud. Our hosts at both
the Folger Shakespeare Library and the

Library of Congress treated us to outstanding educational programs, tours
and receptions. We spent most of this
day on Capitol Hill, then visited several
of our Memorial sites that evening.
All of Tuesday was spent at our
National Zoo, touring through their
new Seal and Sea Lion, and Elephant
exhibits. We even got to see mama panda
resting and eating her bamboo breakfast, as we listened to the primary curator
talk to us about how the month-old
baby panda was doing. The educational
programs that day were very informative,
as we learned about everything from
ideal environmental conditions for
our collections to turf management!
Our hosts on Wednesday were the
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum and the National Museum of
American History. Our tours and educational programs were informative and
captivating, and reminded us of our
history and the significance of what
we do to preserve that history. No one
who attended the annual conference
this year will ever forget the Gala at
the Udvar-Hazy Center in Dulles,
Virginia. The trip out to this location
was long, but so worth the travel! All
of the conference activities were well
planned and executed, and IAMFA’s
membership will never forget the
entire experience that was the 2013
Annual IAMFA Conference!
The Board has placed a conference
evaluation survey up on the IAMFA
website’s Members Only Page (http:/
/
newiamfa.org/members-only.php),
and we hope each of you will take
the time to complete the survey. Our
next conference is in Scotland, and
the results of this survey will assist the
Scotland planning committee in organizing their conference. We always strive
to improve each year, and we welcome
your input and ideas.
IAMFA is much more than its annual
conference, and the Board has been
busy establishing plans for IAMFA’s
two primary goals for 2014. We plan to
develop two new working committees

for increasing both membership and
corporate sponsorship. I will talk more
about these two goals in my next letter
this spring.
We wished John Castle a very fond
farewell from the Board during the
Annual Conference, and thanked him
for his years of service on the IAMFA
Board, as well as for his leadership as
Conference Chair for the 2012 Annual
Conference in Philadelphia. We already
miss his wit and charm during our
Board meetings, as we have been
through one so far without his presence. John, it is just not the same!
Luckily, we were able to secure a
new Board member to take John’s
place at the Annual Meeting, and
Brian Coleman has already begun
taking over John’s leadership of our
IAMFA Chapters. It isn’t an easy job,
but Brian is up to the task!
We were able to close out our 2013
Annual Conference budget with a
surplus in our savings account, mainly
because of the sponsorship support
we received for this conference. The
planning committee person in charge
of securing this level of sponsorship
was John Bixler. He worked tirelessly
all year long with all of our sponsors,
and put together an amazing support
package for this conference.
The IAMFA Board cannot thank our
sponsors enough for their dedicated
support of this conference and our
programs. John secured 15 different
companies as sponsors, and each
of these companies played a role in
the success of this conference. Our
primary sponsor was again Steensen
Varming, and they won our first-ever
IAMFA Diplomat Award at the Gala,
for their continued support of IAMFA.
I look forward to assisting our
Scotland planning team—led by
Jack Plumb this year—as they continue
their work towards the next annual
conference in September 2014. I can’t
wait to see everyone again next fall.
Maybe next year we can see all of our
members in Scotland!


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BEST PRACTICES

Sustainability and Proper Roof Design
By Craig S. Isaacson

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t is estimated that over 3 billion square feet of low-slope
commercial and institutional roofing is installed in the
United States every year.1 If all of these roof installations
were installed with a commitment to a sustainable application, enough energy would be saved to provide heating and
cooling needs equal to the annual energy requirements of
380,000 American homes.2
With a growing commitment to the sustainability of our
buildings, facility managers only have to look to the roof
to make a positive impact. A white roof, or “cool roof”, is
an obvious way to achieve a degree of sustainability; but
the roofing assembly provides other avenues to accomplish
this goal with more impact.
Efforts to recognize environmental achievements involving the roof have, in the past, seemed somewhat futile for
owners of existing structures. While construction projects
frequently involve LEED ratings, it is more difficult to make
retrofit projects conform to existing LEED standards, as the
roof is a nominally small but expensive part of the overall
construction project. To help alleviate this situation, the
Washington, D.C.- based Center for Environmental Innovation
in Roofing (CEIR) has developed a program to recognize
sustainability through improvements to the roofing
assembly/system.
In 2012, CEIR advanced a new program, RoofPoint,
with three main objectives at its core:
1. Promote the development and use of environmentally
responsible, high-performance roof systems and
technologies.
2. Provide a forum for the entire roofing industry.
3. Raise public awareness of the strategic value of our
nation’s roofs.

Comprised of roofing manufacturers, roofing contractors,
specifiers, and suppliers, CEIR recognized a need in the
industry to promote roofing applications that were truly
sustainable and achievable. A focused, strategic resource
dealing strictly with roof areas was needed. That resource
would need to evaluate and promote energy efficiency,
new energy production, and a sustainable environment.
The driving force behind this initiative was a lack of
effective tools to accomplish thorough sustainability for
the roof. “Whole building” rating systems had three
major deficiencies:
1. Lack of New Construction Focus for the Roof Assembly:
Current rating systems address less than 20% of the
annual roofing market potential.
1Center

For Environmental Innovation in Roofing

2Ibid.

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2. System Complexity Costs: Rating system was too costly
to apply to smaller-scale roofing projects.
3. Lack of Emphasis on Primary Roofing Function:
Roofs must still keep water out of the building for a
very long time.
With implementation of the RoofPoint rating system,
decision-making was improved. Good roofing practice was
encouraged and made easier. The goals are relevant and
consistently measureable. The objectives are designed
to be covered in a single, comprehensive guideline. The
durability of a roofing system is emphasized and roof
maintenance, a common oversight, is encouraged and
rewarded. As a result, the best roofing decisions are
recognized and designed in to the roof specification.
To ensure the implementation, growth, and continuity
of the RoofPoint program, the RoofPoint Foundation was
created with the help of a $750,000 grant from the Roofing
Industry Alliance for Progress. With oversight provided by
the CEIR Board of Directors, the process was vetted in a
two-step public review process. Validation of the program has
just been completed via a one-year national pilot program,
involving over 500 low-slope roofs in the United States.

How RoofPoint Works
RoofPoint works as a sustainability program through a
multi-step process. The Environmental Category is
composed of four elements. This section is designed
to evaluate the following:
• Energy Management
• Resources (Material Management and Water
Management)
• Life Cycle (Durability and Life Cycle Management)
• Innovation in Roofing
Energy Management
Credit is given for High “R-value” roof systems, best thermal
practices, roof surface thermal contribution, roof air
barriers, rooftop energy systems, and rooftop daylighting.
Resources
Credit is given for recycled content, existing material
reuse, waste management, the use of low-VOC materials,
roof stormwater retention, and roof-related reduction of
water use. The primary intention is to reduce the amount
of solid waste, reduce ground-level ozone, and reduce
stormwater run-off and related water pollution.

Crystalline and low-profile solar panels are
examples of rooftop energy systems—DERBIGUM
manufacturing plant, Kansas City, Missouri.

Daylighting can save energy consumption by replacing traditional interior lighting
fixtures—Festival Foods, Kansas City, Missouri.

Life Cycle
This element has nine areas of examination: durable roof
insulations, roof drainage design, roof traffic protection,
increased wind resistance, hygrothermal analysis, construction moisture management, durability enhancement, roof
maintenance programs, and project installation quality.
This area focuses on durability and maximizing the life cycle
of the roofing installation. It aims to reduce issues that are
“built into the roof” during installation, which eventually
lead to the premature aging of the roof assembly.
Innovation
This element recognizes design and product innovation,
while also raising industry standards. The candidate roof is
given extra credit for first-time innovation, and for exceeding
state-of-the-art practices.

The Menil Collection—Houston, Texas.

The RoofPoint Guideline
The RoofPoint Guideline, originally implemented in 2012,
was developed in two rounds of public review from roofing
industry leaders and professionals. It was then validated
through a one-year process of actual applications from across
the United States and Mexico. Prestigious museums that
were a part of this vetting process are the Menil Collection,
the Fine Arts Museum Houston, and the Rienzi Museum.
The scoring and credentialing of the certification process
has now been expanded to include steep roofing applications as well as low-slope roofs. Most roofs with a slope in
excess of 3”
/12” fall into this category and may include
slate, tile, and other energy-efficient roofing materials.
The Guideline has a simple organization with clear requirements. Each topical requirement has an index that describes
the intent and the strategy to the user. The guidelines are

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston—
Houston, Texas.

Rienzi Museum—Houston, Texas.


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BEST PRACTICES
designed to create innovation and flexibility. Free downloads
are available at www.RoofPoint.org.
Accompanying the Guideline is the project application.
This has been designed in a quick and easy format. Credits
are automatically tallied for the final score. Hyperlinks to
requirements are accessible for each credit. This feature
became available in July of 2012. The scoring for each
individual component is:
•
•
•
•

Non-Compliant = 0 points per credit
Meets Requirement = 1 points per credit
Exceeds Requirement = 1.5 points per credit
Meets Intent = 1 points per credit

To be recognized as a RoofPoint installation, the roof
assembly must have a minimum score of 12.0 points.
Additionally, at least one point must be earned in the
Energy, Resources, and Life Cycle elements. Most roofs
designed to the RoofPoint criteria average between 18
and 21 points.
RoofPoint is intended to evaluate both new and replacement roofs for commercial and institutional buildings,

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using current state-of-the-art as a baseline. RoofPoint allows
for evaluation of a roof system’s environmental performance
over the life cycle of the building. It provides a useful
measure for what constitutes a sustainable roof in design,
construction, operation, and decommission.
RoofPoint also gives the facility director a vehicle with
which to implement sustainability objectives, life cycle
enhancements, and quality roofing specifications worthy
of the building’s architectural design and its priceless
contents. Reduced energy costs and lowered maintenance
expense are the most tangible benefits that a building
owner can recognize. A maximized life cycle will take a
few more years to realize, but it is highly anticipated.
Craig S. Isaacson, RRP has over 45 years in the roofing industry,
and is Senior Vice-President of DERBIGUM Americas, Inc., a global
roofing membrane manufacturer with plants in North America
and Europe. Craig serves on the Board of Directors of the Roof
Integrated Solar Energy (RISE), Certification Board of CEIR, and
on the RoofPoint Development Committee. He has 13 projects
recognized for sustainable attributes by RoofPoint, including
4 nationally awarded projects. He can be reached at
Craig@derbigum.us.

Preview of the 24th IAMFA Annual
Conference in Scotland, U.K.
By Jack Plumb

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or Scotland—named one of the
top three must-visit destinations
in the world for 2014—it will
certainly be a very busy year. We have
a year of homecoming, with Scots from
around the world returning to their
roots with special events throughout
the year. We have the Commonwealth
Games in July; we have the Edinburgh
International Festival in August; we have
the Ryder Cup in September; we even
have a referendum which will decide
the political future of Scotland—oh,
and I almost forgot, we also have the
24th IAMFA Conference in September.
Yes, you are all invited to come
and join the party, and what a party
it will be! The 24th Annual IAMFA
Conference will be held in Scotland
on September 14–17, with an optional
day on Thursday, September 18—
but more on that later.
The organising team has laid the
groundwork for a very exciting programme, which will include an educational programme, visits to a number
of iconic venues, as well as time for the
more serious side of the conference—
yes, socialising and sampling Scotland’s
most famous export. So come and see
Scotland—post-Enlightenment, but
still living with, and preserving that
amazing legacy. You will see what a
modern Scotland has to offer, meet
the new Scotland, and see for yourself
how we embrace the past, but constantly
reinvent ourselves to meet the new
challenges that this ever-changing
planet has to offer.
The theme for the 2014 IAMFA
Conference . . . well, that is the fourth
dimension—the fourth dimension
being time. We have the past, but how
do we reinvent that past to deliver a
new cultural heritage for our children
to embrace and take forward?
The programme has been carefully
selected to tell this story, starting in
Glasgow where we will learn about a
heavily industrialised city—at one time,

the most important industrial city in the
British Empire—that fell into decline.
We will see how it picked itself up and
reinvented itself as a modern cultural
tourist destination. Today, Glasgow is
bursting with museums and galleries—
some old, some new, but all offering
a glimpse of Glasgow’s rich heritage
in a truly inspirational way.
For the conference hotel, we have
selected the Apex International and
Apex City hotels, which are both fourstar hotels located next to one another
in the Grassmarket, which is in the
heart Edinburgh’s old town. The prebooked rooms include a full Scottish
breakfast. Joe May will be providing a
link through the website for booking
the hotel, and I would urge you all
to use that link, as IAMFA does get
a small fee for every booking made
through the website. The hotel will
take upgrades for “supreme” rooms,
which have king-sized beds and a view
of the castle; but this is on a first come,
first served basis. As we expect demand
to be high, we have also pre-booked
additional rooms at the Ibis South
Bridge Hotel, which also includes a
full Scottish breakfast. Both hotels are

very close to all the main Edinburgh
venues, and you will soon find that
Edinburgh is quite a small town, with
all the Edinburgh venues within easy
walking distance.
Benchmarking registration and the
opening reception will both be held at
the National Library of Scotland, just
a five-minute walk from your hotel.
Walking up Victoria Street will bring
you to the front of the Library. Your
first view will be of the seven Lorimer
sculptures, and the main entrance.
One trick you will have to get used
to in Edinburgh is the bridges. At first
sight, you might think that the main
entrance is on the ground floor; but
you actually enter on the eleventh
floor—yes, there are ten floors below
you. The street that runs past both
hotels is actually the ground floor of
this building. Incidentally, just down
the street on the righthand side you will
see the Elephant House—the coffee
shop where J.K. Rowling wrote some
of her first Harry Potter novel.
On Monday morning, coaches
will leave from the Apex Hotel to
travel to Glasgow. Our first stop will
be the Burrell Museum, set in the very

The Burrell Collection in Glasgow.


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picturesque Pollock Park. This is a truly
remarkable story: Sir William Burrell,
a very wealthy Glasgow shipping merchant and philanthropist, donated his
vast collection, along with £250,000, to
the city to provide a space to exhibit
his collection. Knowing a thing or two
about his home town, and remembering that Glasgow at the time was a
heavily industrialised and polluted
city, he thought this was not the place
to build a museum to exhibit precious
and delicate works of art, so he set the
condition that his museum had to be
built within the city boundaries, but
in a rural setting. Glasgow eventually
bought Pollock Park, which allowed
construction of the Burrell Museum,
completed in 1983.
Guests will have a guided tour of
the Burrell before they head off to the
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
for lunch, followed by guided tours if
they wish. Delegates have a number of
presentations, followed by their guided
tour of the museum.

The Riverside Museum and the Glenlee,
where members will have cocktail hour.

After lunch, delegates travel to the
new Riverside Museum, opened in
June 2011, which was recently voted the
2013 museum of the year. The 7800square-metre museum was designed
by Zaha Hadid, and symbolises the
dynamic relationship between Glasgow
and the shipbuilding, seafaring and
industrial legacy of the River Clyde.
Guests join the delegates later in the
afternoon for a drinks reception aboard
the tall ship Glennlee. The Glenlee is
one of many hundreds of ships built
in Glasgow’s shipyards. Originally
launched in 1896, it is now one of only
five Clyde-built sailing ships still afloat.
After the drinks reception, we depart
for the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and
Museum for a traditional Burns Supper.
A tough day, but you will get the
opportunity to sleep on the bus
back to Edinburgh.
Tuesday will be a quieter day than
Monday, but no less inspirational. Our
host today will be the National Museum
of Scotland. Continuing our theme,

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the
location for Monday’s traditional Burns
Supper. See www.iamfa.org for details.

The Concorde at the National Museum of Flight.

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we will hear about the redevelopment
of the National Museum of Scotland,
which involved taking a building that
first opened in 1886 and reinventing it
as the vibrant and accessible modern
museum you see today.
Guests will have a guided tour
around the Museum, then take a bus
to East Fortune, just outside Edinburgh,
to the National Museum of Flight.
There they will enjoy a guided tour
of the museum, as well as a chance
to climb into the Concorde.
After lunch, guests take a short bus
ride across to Rosslyn Chapel. For those
of you who have seen The Da Vinci Code,
yes, it’s that Rosslyn Chapel. Guests will
have time for a guided tour before the
bus ride home. After lunch, delegates
will have the AGM, followed by a
guided tour around the museum.
On Wednesday, our host will be the
National Galleries of Scotland, where
we learn how to display a national
collection in a sustainable way. Whist
we start at the National Galleries on the

The National Museum of Scotland.

Rosslyn Chapel, made famous by
The Da Vinci Code.

Mound, we will also visit the recently
refurbished Scottish Portrait Gallery
to see how a National Collection is
exhibited and preserved.
Today we will be sharing with our
conservation colleagues, who will join
us to hear about the recent refurbishment of the Portrait Gallery—not the
refurbishment itself, but how that
refurbishment was used to introduce
broader environmental control parameters. These manage to preserve the
collection, but in a more sustainable
way. After lunch, delegates walk across
to the Portrait Gallery for a guided tour.
Guests have a more relaxing day with
a gentle stroll down the Royal Mile,
ending up at Holyrood Palace.
We will have an early finish to the
programme today, as it is back to the
hotel to get changed for the Gala Dinner.
The Gala Dinner will be held at the
Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh.
At the Botanic, we will have a guided
tour through the gardens, eventually
leading us to the new John Muir

Gatehouse for the group photograph
and Gala Dinner.
For those of us who have booked
the additional day on Thursday, it’s
onto the bus for a trip to New Lanark.
New Lanark is a World Heritage Site
created in the 18th century as a cotton
mill, but made famous by mill manager
and social pioneer, Robert Owen. We
arrive just in time for a light lunch,
followed by guided tours. Watch for
the water-driven turbines that used to
drive the mill, which are now utilised
to generate electricity, making the site
almost self-sufficient in electricity.
For those wishing to make this a
slightly longer trip, I have added a
couple of links to websites that provide
a lot of information about Scotland in
general, and holiday breaks in particular.

International Conference
September 14-18, 2014

http://www.visitscotland.com/
http:/
/www.lonelyplanet.com/scotland
Jack Plumb is Head of Estates at the National
Library of Scotland, and Chair of the IAMFA
Scotland 2014 organising committee.

The National Galleries of Scotland.

Holyrood Palace.

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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
MUSEUM FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS

The National Portrait Gallery.

The Royal Botanic Garden, where the
closing Gala Dinner will be held.

New Lanark, destination for the optional
additional day of tours.


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The Fred W. Smith National Library for
the Study of George Washington
By Todd Garing

M

ount Vernon—George
Washington’s beautiful estate
overlooking the Potomac River,
just south of the nation’s capital—
welcomes thousands of visitors each
year to tour Washington’s mansion,
farm, and gardens. Now, with the
opening of the new Fred W. Smith
National Library for the Study of
George Washington, the estate is also
a welcoming home for scholars of
President Washington, the Founding
Fathers, and Colonial America.
This elegant retreat is set on 15
serene, wooded acres, directly across
the street from the estate. The 45,000square-foot library consists of a threelevel, light-filled building with offices,
meeting rooms, and carefully designed
spaces for special collections and rare
volumes. Nearby, a new 7,300-squarefoot residence features two apartments
and six guest suites for visiting scholars.

had previously worked together on
numerous museum and visitor-center
projects requiring stringent environmental controls, and understood the
critical challenges involved in protecting these valuable collections. Three
air-handling units were incorporated

into the building systems design, with
one unit specifically dedicated to the
special collections areas.
Additional collections are stored in
a circulating collection area adjacent
to the first-floor reading room and on
the lower level, with the upper level

Protecting Rare Documents
The Mount Vernon Ladies Association,
which commissioned the design and
construction of the Library, sought
a suitable home for 19th- and 20thcentury books and other objects commemorating Washington, as well as a
portion of his own personal collection
of books, manuscripts, documents,
maps, and letters. The building features two rare-book rooms, as well
as an oval-shaped vault that houses
103 volumes owned by George and
Martha Washington. Maintaining appropriate temperature, humidity, and air
quality for the building’s varied uses
was a key objective for the design of the
facility. The secure, climate-controlled
vault is among 68 temperature zones
within the building.
Mueller Associates provided the
mechanical, electrical, and plumbing
(MEP) engineering design for the
project, working closely with the
architectural firm of Ayers Saint Gross.
The Baltimore-based design team

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The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.

Daylight permeates the building, with two-story windows surrounding the reading room on
three sides.

housing offices. Daylight permeates
the building, with two-story windows
surrounding the reading room on three
sides. The largest meeting room, which
features a micro-tile digital display wall,
also has windows on three sides. The
MEP design maintains a comfortable
environment for visitors, with demandbased controls for temperature and
humidity. A perimeter radiation system
integrated into the architecture provides
added comfort near the glass.

Sustainable Strategies
Building goals included a high level
of energy efficiency and sustainability,
and the library is designed to LEED®Gold certification standards. Chilled
water is used for cooling and dehumidification, with a dedicated stand-alone
chilled water plant. Energy-efficient
systems include a dedicated heatrecovery chiller; an energy-recovery

Interior of the Library

ventilator; a hot water heating system
with condensing boilers located in the
basement; high-efficiency toilets and
urinals; low-flow, sensor-operated
faucets; daylight harvesting; dimmable
lighting; and occupancy sensors. All of
the systems modulate efficiently to meet
variable heating and cooling loads.
The sustainable strategies extend
to the building’s relationship with the
site. In addition to providing daylight,
the abundant glass offers extended
views of the surrounding landscape,
designed by Michael Vergason
Landscape Architects. The U-shaped
building embraces a courtyard, and
was designed to minimize disturbance
to the site. In addition to an extensive
tree-preservation effort, the building’s
air-cooled chiller was positioned onsite,
but well away from the building.
Incorporating the MEP equipment
and piping into the building proved to
be another key challenge. The building

is designed to maximize ceiling heights,
which limited the amount of space in
which to route ductwork and piping.
The two attic mechanical rooms
feature tight slopes, which required
careful planning in order to integrate
large equipment. Mueller Associates
and Ayers Saint Gross made optimal
use of Revit® 3-D modeling software
to coordinate the design.

Connecting to History
and Sense of Place
Meeting its lofty objectives for design,
sustainability, and purpose, the Library
is a striking addition to the Mount
Vernon property. “It has been such
an honor to be the lead architectural
firm in designing this library for our
first President,” says Adam Gross, FAIA,
principal of Ayers Saint Gross. “Our
goal was to reflect George Washington’s
ideals of character, order, balance,
strength, precision, and elegance in the
design of the buildings and grounds.
With the help of our teammates from
Mueller Associates, we were able to
meet this goal.”
With the completion of the library,
George Washington’s own dream has
been realized. “I have not houses to
build, except one, which I must erect
for the accommodation and security
of my military, civil and private papers,
which are voluminous and may be
interesting,” he wrote in a letter in the
spring of 1797. Now, with his books and
documents protected and preserved in
this exceptional new facility, scholars
can further their study of the country’s
first President.
Todd Garing, PE, LEED AP BD+C is a
Vice-President with Baltimore-based
Mueller Associates. He served as principalin-charge of the MEP engineering for the
Smith Library.

Past issues of Papyrus
can be found on IAMFA’s website
www.IAMFA.org


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Energy Waste Due to Low Delta T
in Chilled Water Systems
By Michael Cummings

Low Delta T Syndrome
Low Delta T Syndrome is a costly problem that can be
quite difficult to pinpoint and eliminate. Low Delta T
Syndrome is a scenario in which the water returned to the
chiller plant is too cold. This indicates that the chilled water
was not used to design efficiency within the building. These
inefficiencies can be caused by a number of factors, including poor valve or coil selection, pervasive use of three-way
valves and coil bypass lines, and system overflow. Assuming
that the building has a solid and modern design—meaning
we can rule out bypass and three-way valve causes—it is likely
that Low Delta T Syndrome is being caused by excessive
water flow in the system.
The critical objective here is using the energy effectively,
in order to maintain the environmental conditions necessary
for the protection of valuable exhibits, while simultaneously
minimizing energy consumption.
How does system overflow cause low delta T?
The explanation here is quite simple; flow and delta T are
inversely proportional. This means that, with load held
constant, a 20% overflow will result in a 20% reduction
in delta T. This can also be displayed by examining the
power formula:
Q = 500 ¥ GPM ¥ delta T
What is the energy impact of Low Delta T Syndrome?
There are two prime energy benefits surrounding a
resolution of Low Delta T Syndrome. First, pumping water
is expensive: the energy required to pump 10% more water
is not 10% more horsepower. The pump affinity laws tell us
it will be significantly more than that:
HP1
GPM1
____ = Ê______ˆ3
ËGPM2¯
HP2

reduce the output capacity of the device, causing the coil to
produce delta Ts lower than the coil manufacturer’s design.
How do you know if this is a problem in your plant?
Ask questions. If you don’t know it already, find out the
average supply and return temperatures at the chiller
plant, and compare these to design. Talk to the central
plant staff; ask them about the delta T of the system. Talk
to the facilities staff and see what, if any, programs are in
place to maintain and clean the air handler and other
terminal unit coils.
Resources for learning more about Low Delta T
Syndrome and solutions:
Degrading Chilled Water Plant Delta-T: Causes and
Mitigation by Steven T. Taylor, P.E.
www.taylor-engineering.com/downloads/articles/ASHRAE
Symposium AC-02-6-1 Degrading Delta-T-Taylor.pdf
Solving Low Delta T Syndrome at MIT University A
presentation from the 2012 I.D.E.A
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtAF-9Jfd7o
Energy Impacts of Chilled Water Piping Configurations by
Roy S. Hubbard of Johnson Controls
www.johnsoncontrols.com/content/dam/WWW/jci/
be/integrated_hvac_systems/hvac_equipment/chiller/
downloads/ARRP-12-021%20.pdf
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The Belimo Energy Valve is a fully pressure-independent
valve that additionally allows the user to set a delta T
threshold to eliminate low delta T at the coil. With the

According to this formula, reducing flow by 10% will reduce
pump horsepower by 33%.
The second benefit concerns the chiller plant. Efficient
use of water at the point of consumption will reduce the
demand on the central plant.

The Cause is at the Coil
Low delta T occurring at the chiller plant is the result of
low delta T performance at the air-handler units and other
terminal coils. Low delta T in coils can be caused by a few
factors, including poor valve or coil selection, coil overflow
due to pressure fluctuations, and damaged or dirty coils.
Poor sizing and pressure issues can also lead directly to
coil overflow and reduced delta T. Damaged or fouled coils

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system will benefit from high delta T. In addition to the
control capabilities of the Belimo Energy Valve, the valve
also has an onboard, BACnet-capable BTU meter. This
allows for the collection of trend data that can be used
to fine-tune the system, as well as to schedule predictive
maintenance on air-handler coils.
What are the immediate advantages of the Belimo
Energy Valve?
As soon as the valve is installed and a proper delta T setting
selected, the delta T problems at that air handler are fixed.
The change is immediate. And, since delta T is under
control, there will no longer be any overflow in the coil,
saving the high cost of over-pumping.
What are the long-term benefits of the Belimo
Energy Valve?
Since the Belimo Energy Valve has the integrated BTU
meter, you can receive a constant stream of performance
data about the air handler. This data is critical for any
continuous commissioning process, and is invaluable for a
predictive maintenance program. But the true long-term
benefit of a solution like the Belimo Energy Valve is the
long-term energy saving that can be achieved by running
your system at peak efficiency.

Typical air-handler installation for chilled-water coil.
Michael Cummings is the Regional Applications Consultant—
Government Market for Belimo Aircontrols USA Inc., located in
the Washington, D.C. area. He has over 25 years of controls
experience with companies focused on industrial and commercial
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solutions to customers worldwide. For more information, please
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National Library for
the Study of George
Washington.

Located at Mount Vernon,
this beautiful center for
scholarship features
state-of-the-art archival
storage for the estate’s
Special Collections.

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A New Lighting Control System for the
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By Mike Wildsmith

A

new lighting system has recently
been installed in the 255-seat
Auditorium at the British
Library’s Conference Centre at
St Pancras, London. The Conference
Centre is marketed for external events
via the Library’s catering partners,
Peyton & Byrne. Library colleagues
can also book the Conference Centre,
or one of its five additional meeting
rooms, for internal meetings and
events on Mondays and Fridays, plus
weekends on a first come, first served
basis. The Library’s own experienced
audiovisual team is on hand to support
presentation and lighting requirements.

The need to remain competitive
with other high-profile event
venues
• Greater use of colour: the new
system makes use of red, green
and blue LEDs, allowing users to
“colour change” both the cove
lighting and stage spots, within a
seemingly endless palette of up to
16 million colours. This enables the
colour to be calibrated to support
branding for partners or clients.
See photo below.

• Speed of setup
• Flexibility

Benefits Gained
The benefits gained from the new
lighting system include a significant
reduction in energy consumption,
with resulting cost savings, as well as
increasing the Library’s appeal as an
event venue.
Mike Wildsmith is Electrical Services
Manager at the British Library.

A requirement to reduce energy consumption
Replacement

Energy savings

Drivers for Change

60 x 50 watt tungsten downlighters with 7-watt LED equivalents

• System and equipment obsolescence

67 x 1200 mm fluorescent fittings (nominal rating with
ballast losses = 60 watts) with 265 x 305 mm LED fittings
(nominal rating 13 watts)

575 watts

Analogue dual channel wire wound dimmers with digital LED
leading edge dimmers

700 watts

• An opportunity to take advantage
of developments in technology
• The need to remain competitive
with other high-profile event venues
• A requirement to reduce energy
consumption

Total savings

System and equipment
obsolescence
• Original design dated back to late
1980s/early 1990s
• Equipment was obsolete and no
longer supported by the original
manufacturer
• System utilised analog rather than
digital control
An opportunity to take advantage
of developments in technology
• Greater use of LED lighting (with
associated benefits)
• Introduction of new Digital
Multiplex (DMX) lighting control
system
• Wireless DMX and WiFi remote
control
• Remote setup facility for stage
spotlights

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New lights illuminated in the auditorium.

2580 watts

3855 watts

Control Panel—before upgrade.

Control Panel—after upgrade.

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THE 23RD ANNUAL IAMFA CONFERENCE

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The 23rd IAMFA Annual Conference
in Washington, D.C.
A Week of Learning, Culture, Networking and Tours
By Joe May

T

he 23rd IAMFA Conference in
Washington, D.C. will be remembered in part for the extraordinary
effort by the conference organizers to
make this year’s conference a reality.
On October 1, 2013, the U.S. federal
government shut down, as the two
main political parties could not agree
on budget concerns. As a result, all of
the federally funded museums closed
their doors, leaving conference organizers uncertain as to whether those
doors would open again prior to the
scheduled start of the conference.
This meant that the organizers
of this year’s conference had to plan
backup locations for each day of the
conference, in case we were not able
to visit the original host venues. As it
turned out, the government shutdown
ended just a few days prior to the start
of the conference—and what a wonder ful conference it turned out to be.
We owe the entire conference organizing team so much for their extra efforts
in making this year’s conference an
overwhelming success.
The 2013 IAMFA Conference
organizing team was led by IAMFA’s
President Nancy Bechtol, and included
the following:
Samantha Bartz
Nancy Bechtol
John Bixler
Kristy Brosius
Tony Cerveny
David Conine
Judie Cooper
Dan Davies
Maurice Evans
Alfonzo Garner, Jr.
Kendra Gastright
Neal Graham
Cecily Grzywacz
Donna Heard
Adrienne Jackson
Charon Johnson

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Daren Kennedy
Lisa Lahiff
George Langford
Tiffany Myers
Donald Overfelt
Angel Rodriguez
David Samec
Helen Shade
Kathy Simenton
Mark Sprouse
Lachelle Torney-Reid
Cargie Vaughn

McGuire Engineers: Building

I know how much time they all spent
planning the countless details that
went into making this a truly great
conference.
It is also very important to recognize
the sponsors who made this year’s
conference possible:

No problem.

Steensen Varming (2013 IAMFA
Conference Principal Sponsor):

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within buildings, ensures greater
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Danish engineering firm founded by
Niels Steensen & Jørgen Varming in
Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1933. The
firm specializes in civil, structural and
building services engineering, with
offices in Denmark, Australia, United
Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Ireland.

Victor Stanley: Design for Community.
Manufacturers of quality site furnishings
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Allied Barton Security Services: Local

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Management, General Contracting,
Design-Build, Specialty Contracting.
Ziger/Snead: Baltimore architecture

studio with a national reputation for
design excellence.
These sponsors contributed to the
intellectual content through presentations, and by generously contributing
financially, enabling the spectacular
venues, trips, and meals we all enjoyed
during this year’s conference. We urge
IAMFA members to keep this in mind
when in need of products, services,
and advice of the type offered by these
conference sponsors.

Day One of the conference began, as
in past years, with the Benchmarking
Practices and Learning Workshop for
IAMFA members participating in the
annual benchmarking exercise. This
valuable exercise allows member institutions to compare building operation
costs and practices, in order to find
better ways to accomplish work. Please
see Stacey Wittig’s recap of the Benchmarking Practices and Learning
Workshop in this issue of Papyrus.
Members and guests not attending
the benchmarking workshop were able
to attend the optional pre-conference
day of tours, including a trip to
Arlington National Cemetery, lunch
at the Chart House, and shopping
in Alexandria, Virginia. At Arlington
National Cemetery, everyone witnessed
the changing of the guard at the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier.
The opening reception for this
year’s IAMFA Conference was held at
the Gaylord National Resort. It was a
great evening, spent visiting with old
friends most of us hadn’t seen since

last year’s conference in Philadelphia
and meeting new first-time conference
attendees, while we enjoyed appetizers
and cocktails.
Our home for this year’s conference
was also the Gaylord National Resort.
This spectacular resort hotel had a
nineteen-story atrium and plenty of
opportunities for conference attendees
and guests to explore while at our
home base.
As in past years, the Washington, D.C.
conference included separate programs
for both delegates and their guests.
During the five days of events, the
two programs took place in parallel,
while delegates and guests travelled
to the 17 total venues included in
this year’s conference. Both delegates
and guests spent much of their time
together at the same venues, while
accomplishing their individual objectives: learning and networking for
delegates, and exploration and
discovery for guests. This year’s
conference had record attendance
of 165.

The venues for the 2013 conference
were:
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Annapolis Maryland Tour
Arlington National Cemetery
Calleva Farm
Folger Shakespeare Library
Gaylord National Resort
Glenstone Museum
James Madison Building—Library
of Congress
Lincoln Memorial, White House,
and M.L. King Jr. Memorial Tours
Mount Vernon
National Air and Space Museum—
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
National Archives and Records
Administration, College Park Campus
National Building Museum
National Museum of African Art
National Museum of American
History
National Zoological Park
Thomas Jefferson Building—
Library of Congress
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum

Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

Fifty-one IAMFA Member Institutions participated in the 2013 Benchmarking Exercise, and
most attended the 2014 Benchmarking and Learning Workshop on the Sunday prior to the
start of this year’s IAMFA Conference.

Gaylord National Resort.


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During the delegate program,
members heard the following
presentations:
• Window Upgrades and Preventing
Moisture Intrusion—David Conine
and Michael Cummings
• LED Case Study: Trafalgar Square—
Chris Tiernan
• Developing a Long-Term Collections
Storage Plan—Charon Johnson
• Energy-Reduction Program Capitol
Buildings—Chuck Iliff
• Madison Building Sixth-Floor
Renovation Program—Denis
Smalley and J.R. Wheeler
• Climate-Responsive Building
Envelopes—Chris Arkins and
Emrah Baki Ulas
• Shifts in Environmental-Parameters
Requirements—Sarah Stauderman,
Patty Silence and Dan Davies
• Organic Grounds Management—
Paul Tukey
• How We Use Benchmarking Results
to Improve Performance Year After
Year—David Sanders, Oren Gray,
Jack Plumb and Tony Young
• Hypoxic Fire-Protection System—
John Boyd, Rebecca Kokinda, Andy
Heymann, Jim Call, Jamil Burnett
and Jason Sawyer
During the conference, the IAMFA
Board of Directors met twice—first to
prepare for the IAMFA Annual General

Meeting of its members, and a second
time with Chairs of IAMFA’s Regional
Chapters for breakfast and a discussion
of new steps to support the regional
chapters, and to ask for input from
the Regional Chairs and participation
in IAMFA’s strategic plan.
The Annual General Meeting of
IAMFA’s Members takes place each
year during the IAMFA Conference.
At this meeting, each Board Member
addresses the membership with a
discussion of:
• Regional Chapter Activities
• IAMFA Administration
• Treasury
• Papyrus Magazine
• IAMFA Website
• IAMFA LinkedIn Group
• Strategic Plans
• Election Results
• Preview of next year’s IAMFA
Conference
IAMFA President Nancy Bechtol
presented a new five-year Strategic
Plan for IAMFA. The Strategic Plan
can be found on the Members Only
Page of www.iamfa.org. IAMFA is
positioning itself to expand its partnerships and to reach new members
across the globe. To that end, IAMFA
has developed six goals for the next
five years, in order to continue to
strengthen and expand our organization. IAMFA is currently forming
committees to further develop strategies
for goals 1 and 2, and will seek the
help of IAMFA members to participate
on these committees.

The six goals:
1. Increase Membership
• Broaden and expand membership through actions of IAMFA’s
Membership Committee using
social media (i.e.: LinkedIn,
Facebook) and direct targeted
outreach to new cultural institutions, countries and regions
not currently represented, or
underrepresented, in IAMFA.
• Strengthen the Membership
Committee within IAMFA by
expanding its membership and
setting annual goals to increase
membership. Meet or exceed set
targets for net increases.
• Develop a program aimed at
retaining members.
• Develop and expand our awards
program to include our sponsors,
as well as our membership.
• Increase the effectiveness of
IAMFA Regional Chapters, and
the benefits of attending chapter
meetings. Strengthen existing
chapters and create new ones
where beneficial.
2. Develop Sponsorships
• Develop a Corporate Sponsorship
Program managed by IAMFA’s
Sponsorship Committee to complement IAMFA’s annual conference
sponsorship program.
• Tailor sponsorship offerings to
optimize collaboration and
partnerships between IAMFA’s
members, conference sponsors
and corporate sponsors. Increase
access of corporate and conference
sponsors to IAMFA members.
• Recognize IAMFA’s sponsors
for their committed support
of IAMFA.
3. Establish Financial Fitness
4. Achieve Educational Excellence
5. Increase Communication

IAMFA Board of Directors with the Regional Chapter Chairs at the Chapter Breakfast.

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6. Enhance Metrics and Technology

Two committees are being formed
to address the first two goals, and work
has already begun on both of these.
We encourage all IAMFA members to
volunteer to participate on one of
these two committees. Randy Murphy
will lead the Sponsorship Committee,
and Brian Coleman and David Sanders
will lead the Membership Committee.
Three board positions were up for
election in 2013: Treasurer, Secretary,
and VP Regional Affairs. Alan Dirican,
David Sanders, and John Castle were
re-elected to these positions. Following
the election, John Castle resigned from
the board, due to time constraints,
and Brian Coleman was appointed to
fill John’s term, ending in 2015. Many
thanks go to John for his service to
IAMFA over the past five years.
On Wednesday evening of the conference, delegates and guests traveled
to the Gala by coach. Upon our arrival,
the evening began with a group photo,
followed by cocktails and canapés at
the National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. It was a
stunning setting overlooking historical
aircraft, including a new arrival: Space
Shuttle Discovery.
Our group photo was actually taken
in front of Discovery. The space shuttle
made her maiden flight on August 30,
1984, and her final landing on March 9,
2011. She flew more missions than any
other spacecraft, completing 39 missions in over 27 years of service. Over

her lifetime, Discovery spent nearly an
entire year in Space. Discovery was the
shuttle that launched the Hubble Space
Telescope into orbit, and played a key
role in construction of the International
Space Station.
Attendees were also able to visit the
tower at the Center, with panoramic
views of the surrounding Dulles Airport
area. The evening continued with a
delicious dinner, accompanied by a
variety of wines.
During the evening’s program, three
IAMFA members were recognized
with awards. The first of these was
Corporate Member Steensen Varming,
which was presented with the first-ever
IAMFA Diplomat Award for its participation and support of IAMFA. Accepting

the award were Emrah Baki Ulas and
Chris Arkins from Steensen Varming.
Steensen Varming has been a corporate
member of IAMFA for five years now.
We are very fortunate to have
Steensen Varming as a Corporate
Member and Sponsor of IAMFA. We
rely so much on the generosity of our
sponsors, and we thought it appropriate
to begin recognizing our sponsors
with the new IAMFA Diplomat Award.
We called this award “Diplomat”,
because we are proud to have them
represent IAMFA as our corporate
members. All of IAMFA’s members
benefit from the expertise they share
with us, and we also benefit from the
services they provide when we are in
need of their expertise.

Conference attendees at the closing gala at the National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

IAMFA’s Board of Directors. Left to right: Brian Coleman,
Alan Dirican, Joe May, Nancy Bechtol, Jack Plumb, David Sanders
and Randy Murphy.

Chris Arkins and Emrah Baki Ulas accept the inaugural IAMFA
Diplomat Award on behalf of Steensen Varming Ltd. Left to right:
John Castle, Emrah Baki Ulas, Chris Arkins and Nancy Bechtol.

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We hope Steensen Varming will
display this award in their office to
demonstrate to their staff and clients
how much we value them as a company,
and also how much we value them as
members of IAMFA.
The next award—the George Preston
Memorial Award—was presented to
Jim Moisson from Harvard Art Museums
by Alan Dirican and John DeLucy. We
met Jim at his first IAMFA Conference
in 2003 in San Francisco. The following
year, Jim stepped up and volunteered
to host the 2004 Conference in Boston.
He assembled a great team of members
from a number of cultural facilities,
including Harvard Art Museums, the
Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, the Peabody
Essex Museum in Salem, and the
Boston Athenaeum. It was a great
conference that I will never forget.
Jim went on to serve on IAMFA’s
Board as Treasurer until 2009, when
he was faced with a multi-year major
construction and renovation project at
Harvard Art Museums—a project that
still continues today. In the years he
served on the IAMFA Board, Jim was an
inspiration for the amount of time he
devoted, and his dedication to IAMFA.
We owe Jim a great deal for his steadfast
dedication to IAMFA, and for the many
years during which he served the
organization so selflessly.
As Jim is still managing a $350 million
Renzo Piano renovation and expansion
project, he was not able to join us this

year at the conference, but Dave Geldart
accepted the award for Jim and delivered it promptly upon his return to
Boston. Jim wrote the following upon
receipt of the award:
The award is beautiful and a great
honor. I am truly appreciative. But the
superb gifts from the Olde Country are
really magnificent. The handkerchief,
the socks, the underwear! I had no idea
that one could adorn one’s self with the
Union Jack and still show proper
reverence. But show it I do, in full
regalia. Who on Earth could have
acquired such wonderful items?
As John de Lucy has said: ‘I am an
Anglophile. Guilty as charged. But I am
also a Scots-o-phile, and Aussie-o-phile,
and Chicagophile, and Canada-o-phile.
In fact I love all places where good smart
folks gather and are caring and warm
to each other, and share their knowledge
and have fun together.’ And is that not
IAMFA in a nutshell?
Our project looks magnificent.
Substantial completion was yesterday,
and a hearty single-malt toast was
raised. But there is still much to be
done. Imagine that. We open to the
public one year from now. Can’t wait
to host the 2016 conference back in
New England. And it would be great
to show you around anytime if you
are in the neighborhood before then.
Many, many thanks for everything,
—Jim

Dave Geldart accepts the George Preston Memorial Award on
behalf of Jim Moisson. Left to right: Alan Dirican, David Geldart
and John DeLucy.

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Jack Plumb previews the 2014 IAMFA
Conference in Scotland.

The final George Preston Memorial
Award was presented to Randy Murphy
of the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art by David Sanders and Joe May.
Randy has been a member of IAMFA
since its very early years, and has served
on IAMFA’s Board of Directors three
times. He served as a conference host
twice: in 1997, and again in 2006.
Since 2010, Randy has transformed
the position of VP Administration on
our Board. It is now one of the most
time-consuming board positions,
because Randy has been able to see

Randy Murphy receives the final George Preston Memorial. Left to
right: David Sanders, Randy Murphy and Joe May.

what is needed to run the organization
more effectively, and he just does it. As
IAMFA’s second-in-command, Randy
most recently drafted the Membership
and Sponsorship plans; he serves as
legal interface for IAMFA; he maintains
the membership records; he runs the
annual election; he communicates with
IAMFA’s members; and he advised
Joe May on design features as we began
developing the new IAMFA website.
We are so fortunate to have Randy
Murphy serving on IAMFA’s Board.
As dinner wound down, Jack Plumb
—host of next year’s 24th IAMFA

Conference—described preliminary
plans for the Conference, which is
scheduled for September 14–18, 2014
in Scotland, U.K. Please mark your
calendars, and make sure you join us
next year for another unforgettable
IAMFA Conference.
This brought an end to the closing
gala, and the end of a wonderful
23rd Annual Conference. We saw
many interesting sights at the conference venues, and enjoyed the
opportunities to learn and network
with our peers from so many other
cultural institutions across the globe.

The conference hosts worked
tirelessly, and made the 2013 IAMFA
Conference one that we will never
forget. Thank you so much to our
Washington, D.C. IAMFA members
and conference organizers. We invite
IAMFA members attending the
Washington, D.C. conference to visit
the www.iamfa.org Members Only
Page to provide feedback on the
conference via a conference survey.
Joe May serves on IAMFA’s Board, and is
Editor of IAMFA’s Papyrus Magazine

SCOTLAND
International Conference
September 14-18, 2014

IAMFA 14
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
MUSEUM FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS


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Become a Member
of IAMFA
International Association of Museum Facility Administrators
membership offers invaluable professional benefits for its
hundreds of facility managers of archives, libraries, museums
and other cultural institutions.

Join IAMFA and give your career a boost!

Benefits of IAMFA Membership:
• Annual IAMFA Conferences
• Free Subscription to Triennial Papyrus Magazine
• Benchmarking Exercises
• Earn Continuing Education Units
• Network with Your Peers
• Exclusive Job Postings
. . . and more!

There are several membership categories.
Please visit the IAMFA website to select
the category that applies to you.

For more information on IAMFA benefits and membership
categories or to become a member, please go to

http://newiamfa.org/membership-benefits.php
Email: IAMFA1990@gmail.com
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Benchmarking Workshop
Sharing Practical Solutions
By Stacey Wittig

A

t the 2013 IAMFA Benchmarking Practices and
Learning Workshop held in Washington, D.C. last
October, the fifty-one participants were asked, “What
components of the meeting did you find most beneficial?”
“Identifying best practices that others are using, and
using them in our facility,” wrote David Cervantes, Head
of Engineering at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Kendra Gastright, Director, Office of Facilities Management and Reliability of the Smithsonian Institution, said,
“WOW—great job on the extended Hot Topics discussion.
So many participated with very thoughtful sharing of
challenges and ideas.”
“Comparing our data to other benchmarking groups,”
said John Castle, Director of Facilities Services, Winterthur
Museum, Garden and Library.
For the first time, Keith McClanahan—Principal of
Facility Issues, the consultancy that facilitates the benchmarking exercise for IAMFA—presented charts that compared IAMFA median costs in key categories to other
benchmarking groups. Besides the IAMFA group, Facility
Issues oversees the Research Facility Benchmarking group
consisting of Departments of Energy and Defense labs and
R&D labs at places such Corning and Dupont, the Facility
Managers Roundtable for those managing headquarters
and manufacturing facilities, and the IFMA Utility Council
benchmarking group, among others.

“Security costs of the IAMFA group are as high as security
costs at nuclear labs,” noted McClanahan. The comparisons
of the groups that Facility Issues handles show that members
of the cultural institution group certainly do not want to
compare themselves to headquarters buildings that have much
lower operating costs. The IAMFA group compares “apples
to apples” when benchmarking key costs and practices of
archives, libraries, museums and other cultural facilities.
When it comes to maintenance cost per GSF or GSM,
the IAMFA benchmarking report—sponsored by McGuire
Engineers—revealed that the cultural institution group
is more similar to labs than office facilities. IAMFA’s
janitorial costs were relatively consistent year to year, but
were much higher than other groups. “No other facilities
have thousands of people traipsing through them every
day,” said McClanahan. Utility costs reported by IAMFA
were similar to the other groups.

Sharing Best Practices
“The report is important, but most important are the best
practices that we uncover by comparing the data,” added
McClanahan. Breakout sessions—new this year—allowed
participants to gather into small groups and discuss best
practices in four key categories: utilities, maintenance,
janitorial and security.

Benchmarking participants at the workshop.


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• Pam Lowings of the Royal British Columbia Museum led
the Security breakout group in a stand-up, team-style
meeting.
• John Castle arranged the Janitorial group in a “crosslegged” circle on the floor.
• George Langford, Manager of Facilities Operations
at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum—
a new benchmarking participant this year—led the
Energy/Utilities breakout group.
• The Maintenance group was headed by Sean Dunn,
Director of Facilities, Yale University Art Gallery—
another first-year benchmarking participant.
Later, Dan Davies of the Smithsonian Institution gave
a presentation entitled, “Water Conservation at the
Smithsonian National Zoological Park,” which was highly
applauded by the audience.

Hot Topics Discussions
Hot topics and emerging issues precipitated lively discussions
after a lunch sponsored by the Whiting-Turner Contracting
Company. While discussing system shutdowns and setbacks
in collections areas, George Langford asked, “What do
you do with mixed-media artifacts like guns with wood
and metal?”
“In the U.K., we’ve been working at all these issues for
some time,” said Jack Plumb of the National Library of
Scotland. “We share with conservators, look at seasonal
drift, and are trying to expand the range of acceptable
environmental settings.”
Linda MacMillan, also of the National Library of Scotland,
added, “Something we’ve learned is that you really, really
need to get to know your building.” Later, in a discussion
around how to update historical buildings to modern
standards, Isabelle Noraz, of Grand Palais des Champs

Elysées agreed, saying, “You have to know the building very
well and experience the reality of the building, then you
can change the historical part of it.”
“We have a program for seasonal drift,” added Rich
Reinert of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
“We program rolling outages,” said David Samec, of
the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., who
voiced concern over the impact of shutdowns on equipment. “We’re looking at a softer way to do that so as not
to impact equipment.”
Jeremy Linden from the Image Permanence Institute,
Rochester Institute of Technology, said, “Over four years,
there has been no problem with equipment, including
fans and belts; it [shutdowns] may not be a problem.
However, if you do run into equipment problems, let’s
share that information.”
John Castle admitted to some shutdowns, “some that
were actually planned,” he smiled. “When I’ve suggested
that we move an object to a place where it would be happier,
you would think that I was growing another head out of my
shoulder [by the way the conservators looked at me.]”
Todd Keeley of the Canadian Museum of History noted
that his team builds in redundancy to the temperature
and humidity sensors. “We have three or four sensors and
average it out for the space.”
For further details of Hot Topic discussions, go to the
“Download Center” at https://facilityissues.com/culturalinstitutions
You may enroll now for the 2014 IAMFA Benchmarking
Exercise. Take advantage of a new program that allows you
discounts for multi-year enrollment by going to https://
facilityissues.com/cultural-institutions/enrollment-landing
Stacey Wittig is the former Marketing Director for Facility Issues,
the benchmarking consultancy endorsed by the International
Association of Facility Administrators to facilitate the annual
IAMFA benchmarking exercise.

A Chance for You to Help Protect Our Heritage—
Treasure Caretaker Training: Digital Monastery Project
You can make a difference—
together we can help prevent this kind of damage and loss.
Too many pieces of our global heritage are being lost because their caretakers lack the
skills and knowledge to safeguard them. The pilot initiative Treasure Caretaker Training:
Digital Monastery Project will train monks and nuns in Bhutan in the proper care and
digital recording of art and icons under their protection.
We are asking you to support our volunteer efforts to bring to these caretakers the training they need to care for
these heritage treasures. Please visit our Indiegogo funding site at
www.indiegogo.com/projects/treasure-caretaker-training-digital-monastery-project
and help as much or as little as you can at this time.
Namaste,
Robert Waller, Protect Heritage Corp.

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www.protectheritage.com

Steensen Varming’s 80th Anniversary

S

teensen Varming was founded by Niels Steensen and
Jørgen Varming in Copenhagen in 1933, and worked in
close cooperation with architects such as Arne Jacobsen
and clients such as the Nobel Prize winner, Professor
Niels Bohr.
Since then, the organisation has provided expertise in
mechanical and electrical building services, lighting design
and sustainability, seamlessly assimilating form and function,
art and technology. Practices have also been established in
Ireland (1946) and the United Kingdom (1957). Steensen
Varming was first established in Australia by the Danish
practice in 1973, following success in winning the commission
to design the Sydney Opera House with Jørn Utzon.
Steensen Varming marked two significant milestones
in 2013: just like the Sydney Opera House, the company
celebrated its 40th anniversary in Australia, as well as the
80th year since its foundation in Denmark. Fitting in with
the company’s strong links and shared history with the
iconic venue, both anniversaries were marked by a black tie

event at the Opera House in September at the Concert
Hall Northern Foyers.
Afterwards, guests could dance the night away to live music
by the The Freds, or relax on some wonderful examples of
Danish vintage furniture provided by Vampt Vintage Design.
Through eight decades of technological change and
increased environmental sensitivity, Steensen Varming has
supported an exceptional cast of international architects
and buildings, encompassing the private, corporate and
public sectors—including museums, galleries, archives and
World Heritage Sites. With new offices opening in Hong
Kong and New York, Steensen Varming continues to build
upon its strong heritage and philosophy, driven to enable
the best building design where functionality and well-being
are paramount.
Steensen Varming has been a Corporate Member and Sponsor
of IAMFA since 2009, and is IAMFA’s first-ever recipient of the
IAMFA Diplomat Award, presented on October 23, 2013 in
Washington, D.C.

Guests mingle in the Northern Foyers at Sydney Opera House. Upon arrival, valued clients, inspirational architects and dedicated staff were
greeted by music from cellist Georg Pedersen, who was solo cellist in the Royal Danish Philharmonic.

Guests were greeted by music from cellist Georg Pedersen.
Speeches were given by Opera House CEO Louise Herron, followed
by Søren Varming and Tobias Jacobsen—grandsons of company
founder Jørgen Varming and architect Arne Jacobsen,
respectively—and Steensen Varming CEO Dan Mackenzie.

Dan Mackenzie, CEO of Steensen Varming (centre).

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REGIONAL UPDATES AND MEMBER NEWS
Washington, D.C. -Baltimore Regional
Chapter
By Maurice Evans

The Washington D.C.-Baltimore Chapter held its appreciation
luncheon on November 25 to acknowledge the planning
committee for all of its hard work and effort hosting the
2013 Annual IAMFA Conference in Washington. More
than 20 members of the planning committee, along with
Board Members, were in attendance. Nancy Bechtol
(IAMFA President) and Alan Dirican (IAMFA Treasurer)
were both on hand to represent the Board.
This was the last chance for the planning committee to
meet as a group, as they celebrated their success in hosting
the annual conference. And a successful conference it
was, welcoming the largest number of members ever. The
Washington D.C.-Baltimore Chapter is looking forward to
another great year as it gets ready to plan its 2014 calendar.

To add a little flair to the project, and to Ottawa’s
skyline, the NGC incorporated the outer scrim of the
scaffolding into its summer exhibition of contemporary
Indigenous artists. Greenlandic artist Inuk Silis Høegh
provided the graphics for printing the scrim, which
resembled a large iceberg encompassing the Great Hall.
The construction contract was awarded to Carillion
Construction through a tender process that accorded the
majority of the scoring points to the submitter’s stated
subcontractors for glazing, temporary works (scaffolding),
and roofing, in addition to the general contractor.
The Ottawa Region Chapter heard from Mark Van Dalen,
Vice-President of Patenaude-Trempe-Van Dalen, the buildingenvelope engineers overseeing the work. Mark discussed
some of the challenges of the work in detail, which include
incorporating a laminated blast film within the new IGUs,
and the associated requirement of creating enough of a
bonding surface to adhere the new units to the framing
with a structural caulking bead. This bonding surface was
achieved by way of aluminum extrusions adhered to the
IGUs’ assembly and mechanically fastened to the window
framing members.
Mark also explained the project’s rigorous water-testing
procedures, whereby the primary outer seal (pressure plates
and caps) are removed for all water testing. This helps
to ensure that the secondary seals (watershed channels
between the IGUs) are completely watertight, prior to
signing off on the work. The group then toured the

Ottawa Regional Chapter
By Ed Richard

On November 22, the Ottawa Chapter gathered at the
National Gallery of Canada (NGC). There were approximately 20 in attendance from the NGC, the Canadian
Museum of History (formerly the Canadian Museum of
Civilization), the Canadian Museum of Nature, and a
guest from the National Arts Centre.
The main topics of the meeting revolved around ongoing
construction and energy projects at the NGC, the largest of
which is glass and roof replacement work in the Gallery’s
Great Hall. IAMFA members may remember the space
from the Ottawa conference kick-off breakfast that took
place there in 2007.
The footprint of the Great Hall is approximately 9,000
square feet, but soars 120 feet in height, with close to
1,500 insulated glass units (IGUs) and 13 lead-coated
copper roofs in the overhead skylight. The building
opened 25 years ago, and it was time to replace the
glazing and rebuild the roofs.

Attendees at the Ottawa Chapter meeting.

The National Gallery of Canada.

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interior of the work site, which is fully scaffolded both
inside and out.
Afterwards, we made our way to the main mechanical
room at the NGC for a brief overview of some HVAC and
energy conservation projects. We heard from Normand
Bergeron of SMi Enerpro—mechanical engineering consultants that have worked on a number of projects at the
NGC over the years. He briefly discussed the major energy
retrofits done over a decade ago, which are still providing
ongoing savings to the NGC. He also went into more detail
on two more current projects: the installation of a centralized
reverse-osmosis humidification system, and the ongoing
installation of a back-up cooling system for the NGC’s
Special Exhibition galleries.
This last project was initiated because the NGC is completely reliant upon a central provider of chilled water, and
has had supply-interruption issues in the past. This initiative
was originally intended to mitigate supply problems, but
will now supplement the chilled water feed to the cooling
loop for less cost than the chilled water supply. In the event
of a supply interruption, the system can be quickly adjusted
to provide cooling to specific areas of the building—mainly
the Special Exhibition galleries, where the NGC would
normally have its most important (and costly) works of art,
often on loan from other institutions.
After a quick lunch, the group convened for a discussion
of issues around personnel screening for both museum
staff and contractors onsite. We also discussed aspects of
facilities management policies: i.e., whether each institution
had one, and what rules were in place related to the use of
office space in the different museums. The meeting was
adjourned with a request for a future regional meeting at the
Diefenbunker in nearby Carp, Ontario, which was constructed
during the Cold War era. No date has yet been set.

The 36,444-square-foot Energy Center consists of a
chiller plant, a boiler plant, plumbing equipment rooms,
electrical rooms, main server rooms and support spaces
such as a control room, shops, and storage spaces. There
were also special rooms for the equipment providing
medical suction, de-ionized and R.O. water, medical gases
etc. The Energy Center is a major contributing factor to
the Medical Center’s LEED Gold target.
The design had a number of elements special to, as
a life-support facility in earthquake country. The steel
moment-frame construction incorporates all the latest
seismic-resistive measures. There are three huge Cat diesel
generators mounted on the roof, which can pick up the
entire load for a few days. They have large cisterns of water to
carry them through an emergency, plus a large sewage cistern
so they can continue to discharge even if the municipal
system fails. There are appropriate tanks to hold large
quantities of oxygen and diesel fuel onsite, too. The boilers
are natural-gas-fired with diesel back-up. There is also a
heliport atop the inpatient wing.
We enjoyed seeing this state-of-the-art facility, which
gave us all something to think about and take back to our
institutions. In his orientation, our host Joe Rios, who has
30+ years with the UC Medical Center, explained their
unique approach to the design. The existing hospitals’
engineering staff had meaningful input and dialog, beginning five years before groundbreaking, and continuing
now as they approach final handover.
Joe said that it has made a world of difference getting
the input of the feet-on-the-ground engineers incorporated
into this progressive design. After seeing so many things
not work well, or fail, during his long career, it has been
particularly rewarding to use his experience and that of
others to alter the design and ensure smoother and more
efficient operation of the UCSF Medical Center in future.

Northern California and Nevada Regional
Chapter
By Jennifer Fragomeni

It took three attempts at scheduling, but we were finally
able to secure a date and time for our fourth-quarter tour
and meeting. The Northern California Chapter met at the
construction site for the new University of California San
Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mission Bay on Friday,
November 8. This huge new facility is billed as a Women’s
and Children’s Hospital, and is scheduled to open in
January 2015.
We held a brief business meeting, during which we
brainstormed about locations and topics of interest for
next year’s quarterly regional meetings, and reported back
on this year’s IAMFA Conference. We were then given an
overview presentation of the Medical Center campus, and a
tour of the newly constructed Energy Center that will serve
two hospitals and an outpatient building.

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Left to right: Our host Joe Rios, to whom we are thankful for the
tour; Mr. Massey, our guide; and Tamara, Jennifer, Mark, Heather,
Shani, Chuck, Lilly and Ari (Joe Brennan taking photo).

The ten attendees at this meeting were:
Jennifer Fragomeni, Exploratorium
Chuck Mignacco, Exploratorium
Jesse MacQuiddy, Exploratorium
Shani Krevsky, Exploratorium
Joe Brennan, formerly SFMOMA (retired)
Ari Harding, California Academy of Sciences
Heather Hickman Holland, San Francisco Art Institute
Mark Palmer, City of San Francisco, Municipal Green

Building Task Force
Tamara Hayes, Museum at the Mint
Lillian Stamets, UCSF Gift Shops

U.K. Regional Chapter
By Jack Plumb

The latest in a long line of joint meetings between Estates/
Facilities teams and their Conservation colleagues was held
at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Many thanks to
Allan Tyrrell, who hosted the event, and David Redrup,
who did all the organising. I should also mention, as a
measure of the success of these meetings, that there were
just over 40 attendees at this meeting.
The meeting kicked off with a welcome from Judith West,
Director of Operations and Resources at the Portrait Gallery.
Dr. Nigel Blades, preventative Conservation Advisor
(Environmental) at the National Trust, provided the first
presentation on how the National Trust was implementing
its energy policy throughout its estate. For those not familiar
with the work of the National Trust in the U.K., it is an
organisation established to promote the permanent preservation, for the benefit of the nation, of palaces and artefacts
of natural beauty or historical significance. It is also worth
noting the slightly different definition of conservation that
the National Trust has, compared with what we normally
recognise within an IAMFA gallery and museum environment.

• Second stage: Efficiency measures (insulation, upgrade
old and inefficient installations, improved operating
practices and maintenance).
• Third stage: Renewables and low-carbon technologies.
The first stage was well recognised by IAMFA colleagues,
as we all appreciate that what you don’t measure you cannot
manage; however, Nigel took some time to explain how the
National Trust implemented humidity control by varying the
temperature. The environmental envelope they worked
around was 50% and 65% RH, which was controlled by
varying the space temperature between 5°C and 22°C. Whilst
this worked very well for the time that the spaces were
unoccupied, they were having to adjust these parameters for
occupied hours, especially during public opening hours.
The next presentation was provided by Chris Tiernan, the
U.K. Managing Director of ERCO Lighting. Chris, whom all
those who attended the recent conference in Washington
will remember, gave a great presentation on the development of LED lighting within galleries, with particular
reference to the Portrait Gallery. In the time allocated,
Chris gave a very brief overview of that presentation, but
did emphasise a couple of points.
These were, firstly, the ability of the LED light source to
provide sufficient colour rendering for the works of art—
particularly the reds in paintings. He noted that the advantages of using LED lighting for galleries were their improved
efficiency, lack of colour drift during dimming, and vastly

National Trust—Definition of Conservation: . . . the careful
management of change. It is about revealing and sharing the
significance of places and ensuring that their special qualities
are protected, enhanced, enjoyed and understood by present
and future generations.
Nigel went on to explain that National Trust stately homes
tended to be mostly Grade I listed, all with unique interiors
and collections. These buildings are generally large, very
leaky, have single-glazed windows, are not insulated, and
use oil-fired heating, but still need environmental control
for collection conservation. Maintaining environmental
conditions within the close tolerances of a conventional
museum environment were thus just not practical, which
led the National Trust to develop its energy policy. The
energy policy is based on a three-step process:
• First stage: Measure baseline consumption and
performance (energy metering and surveys).

The National Portrait Gallery, London.


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improved lamp life. Chris went on to explain that good
modern suppliers can now provide this quality of LED
luminaire, as demonstrated by the vast number of successful
installations of LED luminaires within galleries around
the world.
The other point that Chris made, as demonstrated by
later tours around the Portrait Gallery, was that trials should
be held to critically test performance, and those trials
should be held in a significantly large area. This last point
was crucial to achieving a comprehensive understanding
of the performance of any lighting scheme—never mind
a state-of-the-art LED lighting scheme.
The penultimate presentation was provided by Franky
Scott of Autoflame. Franky explained that Autoflame provided engineered solutions which are proven and trusted
for some of the most demanding and critical boiler applications. Their sophisticated burner-management systems,
the result of many years of practical experience, maximise
the efficiency of boiler plants, dramatically reducing fuel

Allan Tyrrell explaining the benefits of LED lighting within a gallery
environment.

consumption, costs and harmful emissions. Many organisations rely on Autoflame to improve the effectiveness of
their boilers. The results are impressive. Environmental
objectives have been achieved through significant reductions in emissions. Lower fuel costs have also helped
organisations adapt to rising fuel prices and changes in
the economic environment.
The final presentation was provided by Edward Spell of
Cofely GDF Suez. Edward’s presentation was on humidity:
why we need it, ways to provide it, and some cost/carbon
comparisons. Edward explained that humidification for
archival environments is required to conserve collections
and avoid expensive and complicated repair costs. Edward
then went over the ways in which cabinets could be used to
maintain humidity levels passively, with the use of silica gel
and prosorb being popular materials.
Should passive humidification not be sufficient to meet
humidification requirements, active humidification would
be required. Various types of humidification equipment are
available, from the standard electrode steam plant, resistive
steam plant and gas-fired steam plant, to the various form
of adiabatic humidification plant.
To calculate the amount of humidification required,
Edward introduced us to the delights of the psychometric
chart, and went through a couple of standard calculations
to determine the required level of humidification. Edward
concluded with a couple of graphs that showed a comparison
of whole-life operating costs for the various types of humidifiers, which interestingly identified the portable adiabatic
humidifier as the most cost-effective way of providing
humidification within an archival environment.
To round off the day, Allan Tyrrell hosted a number of
tours around the Portrait Gallery to demonstrate just how
well the new ERCO LED spotlighting had improved the
viewing experience of the collection, while also significantly
reducing the running costs and carbon footprint of the
Portrait Gallery. Behind-the-scenes tours were also given
of conservation areas, where we saw at first hand the work
of the conservators.
A special thanks to Allan and his colleagues at the
Portrait Gallery for the tours and explanations.

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IAMFA MEMBERS—ORGANIZATIONS
AUSTRALIA

Peterborough Museum &
Archives

Compton Verney House Trust

Architect of the Capitol

Compton Verney, Warwickshire

Washington, DC

The Energy Consortium

architrve pc architects

Norbury, London, England

Washington, DC

Glasgow Life, Glasgow City
Council

Art Institute of Chicago

Protect Heritage Corp.
Orleans, Ontario

Glasgow, Scotland

Royal British Columbia
Museum

Historic Royal Palaces

Art Gallery of New South
Wales

Peterborough, Ontario

Sydney, New South Wales

Ottawa, Ontario

Australian Centre for the
Moving Image
Melbourne, VIC

Museum of Old and New Art
Berriedale, Tasmania

Physical Resource Bureau

Victoria, British Columbia

Museum Victoria

CHINA

Melbourne

National Gallery of Australia
Canberra, ACT

Hong Kong

National Portrait Gallery of
Australia
Canberra, ACT

Port Arthur Historic Sites

Canberra, ACT

DEMMARK
Steensen Varming
Copenhagen

Credit Agricole
Paris

Canada Science & Technology
Museum Corporation

Venezia Mestre

NEW ZEALAND
Auckland Museum
Auckland

Christchurch Art Gallery
Christchurch, Canterbury

Royal New Zealand Navy
Devonport, Auckland

Canadian Museum of
Civilization

Uxbridge Creative Centre
Howick, Auckland

Gatineau, Quebec

QATAR

Canadian Museum of Nature
Candian Museum for Human
Rights
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Integrated Heritage
Management

Qatar Museums Auithority
Doha

Qatar National Museum
Doha

UNITED KINGDOM

Almonte, Ontario

Library Archives of Canada
Gatineau, Quebec

Lundholm Associates
Architects
Toronto, Ontario

National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

British Library
London, England

British Museum
London, England

Camfil Limited

Philadelphia, PA

London, England

Belimo Aircontrols USA, Inc

Edinburgh, Scotland

Midlothian, VA

Boston Athenaeum

Liverpool, England

Boston, MA

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Edinburgh, Scotland

Brooklyn, NY

Buro Happold
New York, NY

London, England

California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, CA

Natural History Museum
London, England

Norland Managed Services

Carnegie Museums of
Pittsburgh

London, England

Pittsburgh, PA

Royal Academy of Arts,
Burlington House, Piccadilly

CBT Architects
Boston, MA

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH

SPIE Matthew Hall
Suffolk, England

Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH

SPIE UK
London, England

Tate

Cooper-Hewitt, National
Design Museum

London, England

New York, NY

University of Greenwich

Currier Museum of Art

London, England

Manchester, NH

Victoria & Albert Museum

Cypress Security, LLC

London, England

San Francisco, CA

Delaware Art Museum

UNITED STATES

Wilmington, DE

Aegis Property Group

Delaware Museum of Natural
History

Philadelphia, PA

AFS Chemical Filtration Group
Burlington, MA

Alied Barton
Wallingford, PA

Haslingden, Lancashire

Anacostia Community
Museum

Cofely Ltd

Washington, DC

Worcester Park, Surrey

Baltimore, MD

The Barnes Foundation

London, England

Ottawa, Ontario

Ottawa, Ontario

Edinburgh, Scotland

National Portrait Gallery

ITALY

Aanischaaukamikw Cree
Cultural Institiute

Ottawa, Ontario

Baltimore Museum of Art

National Museums Scotland

Polymnia Venezia srl

Black and McDonald

Atlanta, GA

Richmond, Surrey

National Museums Liverpool

FRANCE

Sydney

Ouje-Bougoumou, Quebec

Atlanta History Center

The National Archives


Steensen Varming

CANADA

Washington, DC

Molesey, Surrey

National Gallery, London

Port Arthur, Tasmania

Questacon, The National
Science and Technology
Center

Arts and Industries Building

National Galleries of Scotland
Steensen Varming

Chicago, IL

Wilmington, DE

DERBIGUM Americas, Inc.
Kansas City, MO

Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library and Collection
Washington, DC

Ewing Cole
Washington, DC

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